Some tough questions are suddenly being asked of the Daniel Lurie administration, after they awarded a contract to a very pricey vendor with connections to Lurie, snubbing a much cheaper and more highly rated competitor.
There was a very specific pattern to SF City Hall corruption scandals under Mayor London Breed. Department heads would spend lavishly on themselves with city money, or funnel that money to certain nonprofits who would in turn lavishly reward that department head. In these cases, it was the City Hall officials or the nonprofit heads who were seemingly on the take.
Now we are under the Daniel Lurie administration, and what may be his first corruption scandal looks a little different. Here we see questions about whether tech millionaires in Lurie’s orbit are getting preferential treatment in the doling out of city contracts. The SF Standard broke a story Wednesday that a vendor with connections to Lurie got a pricey contract, despite a better-rated competitor offering the same service for millions of dollars less…